India again castigated Pakistan as it gave blistering retort to Prime Minister Imran Khan raking up the issue of Kashmir in his address to the UN General Assembly. India said in its response that Pakistan, where terrorists enjoy free pass, is an “arsonist” disguising itself as a “fire-fighter”.
Khan in his address spoke about the 2019 decision of India to abrogate Article 370 as well as the death of pro-Pakistan separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani. “The worst and most pervasive form of Islamophobia now rules India,” Khan said in an address, delivered by video due to Covid precautions.
In a sharp retort, first secretary Sneha Dubey said the entire world has suffered because of Pakistan’s policies as the country nurtures terrorists in its backyard. The young diplomat, who has won praise globally, reiterated that the entire union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh “were, are and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India”.
“This includes the areas that are under the illegal occupation of Pakistan. We call upon Pakistan to immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation,” said Dubey.
Sneha Dubey is a 2012 batch IFS officer who brought the real face of Pakistan in front of the whole world. She cleared UPSC on the first attempt. After becoming IFS, she got appointed to the Ministry of External Affairs. In 2014, She became India’s third secretary at the embassy in Madrid. At present, she is the first Secretary of India In the United Nations Assembly. Sneha has done MA and MPhil from JNU. She completed her early education in Goa and later graduated from Fergusson College, Pune. She is the first Civil service officer in her family.
“Member states are aware that Pakistan has an established history and policy of harbouring, aiding and actively supporting terrorists. This is a country which has been globally recognised as one openly supporting, training, financing and arming terrorists as a matter of state policy,” she said. Dubey added that it holds the ignoble record of hosting the largest number of terrorists proscribed by the UN Security Council.
Dubey joined the foreign service in December 2013, taking up the position of under secretary in the Latin America and Caribbean division at the Ministry of External Affairs.
A year later, she joined as the Third Secretary at the Indian Embassy in Madrid. After that, she was sent to the prestigious Indian permanent mission to the United Nations.